The European Union is working on countermeasures in response to the tariffs that US president Trump has announced. Commission president Ursula von der
  • Redditsux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    97·
    23 days ago

    LOL Trump wanted to keep this “trade war” to goods only. He never mentioned the surplus US has in services trade. This will really hurt US below the belt.

      • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        22 days ago

        I don’t get it. Why do Americans want to hurt themselves so badly? Shooting yourself in the foot? “Nah men, that’s for children.” Russian roulette? “Boooring, why just 1 bullet in the chamber when you can do 6 instead.”

        It’s so obvious how your current president with his clown army is set to destroy the country yet the American people were all for it and voted him back, after a horrible first term. Everyone is in support of mega corps and the ultra rich and don’t care it will come out of their own pocket.

        And now you’re in support of the EU to ban American services, something which would hurt the country and everyone in it, making it harder for you to get a job, pay for groceries, get proper health care and education, waving away your human rights and freedom of expression.

        I’m a European, to me it looks like the movie Idiocracy was an understatement when I look at the US. It’s a country filled with masochist toddlers who argue about how big their graves should be while digging those themselves with lightning speed.

        I get it, you’re unhappy with the current situation, but supporting the ones who will hurt you, is going to hurt you. If I was in your situation I’d say “yeah EU, I get it, but it will be at the cost of the American people because those mega corps will take their loss out of our paychecks and welfare.”

        But you do you! Good luck mate!

        • RedPostItNote@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          22 days ago

          So you’re now mad at people for realizing they’re the baddie and wanting change?

          What don’t you get? America runs on money. Maybe you should trust us when we say we deserve something. We know what makes these beasts wail

          • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            22 days ago

            It’s the self destructive thinking that gets me frustrated. By destroying themselves they take down so many others, bringing an insane amount of agony, suffering and death.

              • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                22 days ago

                If they did, Trump wouldn’t be reallected and Musk wouldn’t be unofficial president. We wouldn’t be heading towards an inevitable world War 3. People wouldn’t be dying because aid was cut and because weapons are kept on delivered to destructive nazis. But sure, this is the best we can do. Fuck that.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    602·
    23 days ago

    If this raises prices of Netflix, Gamepass, … I will immediately cancel them rather than pay the hike.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
        18·
        23 days ago

        At this point I’m quickly getting to the “…rebellion becomes duty” phase on this issue. Everything is getting so unreasonable.

        I’m also just worried about getting served because I forgot to turn on an obfuscation service or something lol…

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          23 days ago

          Downloading content is mostly legal around the world. Uploading content is illegal pretty much everywhere.

          Usenet just downloads so it’s not as illegal. For torrenting you need a VPN

        • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          23 days ago

          Usenet isn’t as easy to get caught using as torrents just because of how it works. I don’t know enough to explain why, I just know this haha.

        • dickalan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          Real debrid. It won’t help you find the content but once you do, it makes getting it practically full proof and so you’ll never get caught and it’s only like four dollars a month so it’s way cheaper than a VPN

      • axh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        I was today’s years old (and that is a lot) when I found out Usenet is still alive and can be used to get… Hmmm… Entertainment. Where should I start if I want to get rid of Netflix?

        • Marafon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          23 days ago

          Google “freemediaheckyeah” (idk if can post links to stuff like this on this board, should be the first .net result though)

          There is a category for downloads and in that category there is a subsection for Usenet with a guide and additional resources.

          Have fun and don’t forget to ask the horse what he wants to do.

        • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          23 days ago

          Honestly I’m not the best resource for this information as somebody else set up my account, but I think there’s a usenet community on Lemmy!

        • dickalan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          22 days ago

          Real debrid paired with infuse , You’re only bottleneck is however fast your Internet you are paying for, this works if you have an iPhone and or a Apple TV, but pirate service is still fast and works with whatever device you have

  • wtckt@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    22 days ago

    Fucking do it. Those apps are hot air. No one needs them. There’s no problem replacing them.

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    I’m sure the EU won’t insta-react like a five year old, and if it reacts this is the thing I’m expecting. Smart stuff.

    So get your act together EU!!

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.

    Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.